Harnessing the Power of Defensive Microbes: Evolutionary Implications in Nature and Disease Control

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Ford, Suzanne A ^a   King, Kayla C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST IMMUNE MEDIATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST TOLERANCE MEDIATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARASITISM; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLANT DISEASE; RESOURCE COMPETITION; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRECLINICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84964907009     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005465     Document Type: Article

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